Quotes about Transformation

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

By having a change wrought in thee. 'But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.' I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you . . . I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:26,28).

The outward call may bring men to a profession of Christ, the inward call brings them to a possession of Christ. The outward call curbs a sinner, the inward call changes him.